sheet of rubber about a sixteenth of an inch thick for a
background, and by a process only known to themselves veneer it with
a Turkish towel, and put it in brine to soak. The unsuspecting
boarding-house keeper, or restaurant man, buys it and cooks it, and
the boarder or transient guest calls for tripe. A piece is cut off the
damnable tripe with a pair of shears used in a tin shop for cutting
sheet iron, and it is handed to the victim. He tries to cut it,
and fails; he tries to gnaw it off, and if he succeeds in getting a
mouthful, that settles him. He leaves his tripe on his plate, and it
is gathered up and sewed on the original piece, and is kept for another
banquet.

The tripe is expensive, owing to the royalty that has to be paid to the
rubber company, and often the boarder succeeds in eating off some of the
towel, so it has to be veneered over again; but take it the year round,
and the tripe pays its way in a boarding-house.

A CASE OF PARALYSIS.

About as mean a trick as we ever heard of was perpetrated by a doctor at
Hudson last Sunday. The victim was a justice of the peace named Evans.
Mr. Evans is a man who has the alfiredest biggest feet east of St. Paul,
and when he gets a new pair of shoes it is an event that has its effect
on the leather market.

Last winter he advertised for sealed proposals to erect a pair of
shoes for him, and when the bids were opened it was found that a local
architect in leather had secured the contract, and after mortgaging his
house to a Milwaukee tannery, and borrowing some money on his diamonds
of his "uncle," John Comstock, who keeps a pawnbrokery there, he broke
ground for the shoes.

Owing to the snow blockade and the freshets, and the trouble to get
hands who would work on the dome, there were several delays, and Judge
Evans was at one time inclined to cancel the contract, and put some
strings in box cars and wear them in place of shoes, but sympathy for
the contractor, who had his little awl invested in the material and
labor, induced him to put up with the delay.

On Saturday the shoes were completed, all except laying the floor and
putting on a couple of bay windows for corns, and conservatories for
bunions, and the judge concluded to wear them on Sunday. He put them on,
but got the right one on the left foot, and the left one on the right
foot. As he walked down town the right foot was continually getting on
the left side, and he stumbled over himself, and he